The Calvary Chapel wing of the Hamilton County Republican Party is at its witchcraft again.
Instead of following the words of Jesus to “let the little children come,” High Priestess Greene attempts to casts her spell upon the Hamilton County School Board and bar immigrant children from seeking an elementary education.
According to High Priestess Greene and other members of her coven, the under-funding of our schools can be cured by excluding immigrant children. With the whiff of her witchy-wand, she can make thousands of our children disappear.
But never fear. We are lucky to have Mr. Joe Smith, Hamilton County School Board chairman, “standing in the gap” to seek a solution to the current funding gap without hurting our children.
Stand firm, Joe.
C. Mark Warren
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Mr. Warren,
Perhaps you should leave the story telling and name calling to the first graders of Hamilton County and give us adults a break from your childish, but, "oh so cute" diatribes.
On a more serious note, the school funding issue can be wholly rectified by scrutinizing the Central Office with a DOGE mentality. Most companies in financial strain will have layoffs, cut programs and in this present day, eliminate DEI. An audit of the Central Office would make an excellent first step to find some dollars to cut from their over-sized budget. Where is that School Board when you need one?
For those County Commissioners trying to shirk their duties on school funding by passing their buck to the voters.....being namby-pamby is not the way do the job you were elected to perform. Do your job or resign and let someone get on board that's better suited to resolve budget problems. Very simple. Move forward or get out of the way.
And for posterity and reminiscing of past school budget years, I will invoke the "school budget beaten dead horse ad nauseam" mantra one more time....."and let us not forget, it's for the children".
On the flip side, "read my lips, no new taxes". We can only hope.
Phil Snider
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I'm going to start my rely at the bottom, because it is really at the top. Phil Snider, you hit the nail on the head with your reply about school funding. C. Mark Warren, as is his usual self, I believe wrote what he was directed to write. We always want to guilt the taxpayers, rather than find real solutions to the problem. Let's threaten to take things away from "the little children" rather than address the top-heavy administration. Mr. Snider, I think you know that the administration doesn't start with cutting their own pay, or a few extra positions, they start with cutting programs and teachers.
Now, for what I see as the most crass and egregious portion of C. Mark Warren's opinion, did I really see his blatant referral to Calvary Chaple as a coven? Surely, he knows that a coven is a group of 13 witches, an idea promoted by Margaret Murray in 1921, not just as a hypothesis, but based on fact regarding the pagan religion of serving and worshiping the "horned god". We know him as Satan.
Calling Ms. Greene a "High Priestess" is nothing short of slander. Although Mr. Warren is a car/truck wreck injury lawyer, surely, he knows that is "libel", as it is damaging to her reputation. And the same for Calavary Chapel. In full disclosure, I don't worship there, but I have a lot of friends who do, and they hear the word of God and worship as brothers and sisters, not pagans.
If this were about a Constitutional matter, I would give him a pass, as he has proven he doesn't remember that class in law school. It's really no excuse, but I'm in a forgiving mood, somewhat. However, I hope that someone, especially Ms. Greene, will take him to task over this and make him pay dearly for what he has done. To do nothing, at this point, is tantamount to allowing him to get away with blasphemy. That's something we cannot tolerate in a civil society, founded under the principles of God.
J. Pat Williams